2014-11-04, 03:25 AM
[COLOR="#cc8899"]Dear god. The end of season ranked grind is one of the worst experiences I've ever had in LoL. Ever since Saturday I've had in 2/3 of my games some of the most inflammatory, abusive, general pimento players I've ever seen. I've seen players in their promos get pissy in champ select and then decide to completely troll in-game as a result, I've seen the stereotypical feeding mid that blames the jungler, etc.
And, through all of that, THIS is what finally makes me break down and shake my head:
http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.c...?tab=stats
![[Image: 3fc3eecd6d.png]](http://puu.sh/cCGRq/3fc3eecd6d.png)
That purple gold lead at 20 minutes? That's my team kicking ass and taking names. The 31minutes of gameplay after that? That's our Caitlyn alternating between being super far pushed up alone, with no wards nearby (or worse, ignoring enemy champions in ward vision moving towards her) and dying or quite literally sitting at a turret that has no minions anywhere near it doing nothing. Teamfights that she actually reacted to involved her pressing Q or R at pointblank range in the face of a Udyr, then trying to put traps under people. I don't care about the damage to champs, lategame Zyra does that, I understand that. I could care less about KDA, we had the gold lead to win the game for most of the game regardless of individual scores. In fact we probably would've ended faster with a trigger-happy Tristana or Corki diving into their team than a Caitlyn who wasn't even in the game half the time.
A match that could've been over at 30minutes at the latest took 51 minutes (and we nearly lost) because it took 20 minutes for a fight to break out where Cait just happened to be coincidentally standing doing nothing, resulting in her essentially afk-autoattacking them. We nearly lost to a team with a support who placed exactly 0 wards. As a support main, I...I died a little inside. Because if they had won, the Soraka would move up in MMR to continue doing that pomegranate to unexpecting teams in the future. But because we won, our Cait is now off to continue afflicting some other poor hapless teams.
![[Image: e2038c7206.png]](http://puu.sh/cCHSc/e2038c7206.png)
Can't win for losing.[/COLOR]
And, through all of that, THIS is what finally makes me break down and shake my head:
http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.c...?tab=stats
That purple gold lead at 20 minutes? That's my team kicking ass and taking names. The 31minutes of gameplay after that? That's our Caitlyn alternating between being super far pushed up alone, with no wards nearby (or worse, ignoring enemy champions in ward vision moving towards her) and dying or quite literally sitting at a turret that has no minions anywhere near it doing nothing. Teamfights that she actually reacted to involved her pressing Q or R at pointblank range in the face of a Udyr, then trying to put traps under people. I don't care about the damage to champs, lategame Zyra does that, I understand that. I could care less about KDA, we had the gold lead to win the game for most of the game regardless of individual scores. In fact we probably would've ended faster with a trigger-happy Tristana or Corki diving into their team than a Caitlyn who wasn't even in the game half the time.
A match that could've been over at 30minutes at the latest took 51 minutes (and we nearly lost) because it took 20 minutes for a fight to break out where Cait just happened to be coincidentally standing doing nothing, resulting in her essentially afk-autoattacking them. We nearly lost to a team with a support who placed exactly 0 wards. As a support main, I...I died a little inside. Because if they had won, the Soraka would move up in MMR to continue doing that pomegranate to unexpecting teams in the future. But because we won, our Cait is now off to continue afflicting some other poor hapless teams.
Can't win for losing.[/COLOR]